On 10 Feb 2007 18:58:51 -0800, gregarican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 10, 6:26 pm, "Geoff Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the way to go about learning Python's regular expressions? I feel > > like such an idiot - being so strong in a programming language but knowing > > nothing about RE. > > I highly recommend reading the book "Mastering Regular Expressions," > which I believe is published by O'Reilly. It's a great reference and > helps peel the onion in terms of working through RE. They are a > language unto themselves. A fun brain exercise. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Absolutely: Get "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl. Not only is it easy to read, but you'll get a lot of mileage out of regexes in general. Grep, Perl one-liners, Python, and other tools use regexes, and you'll find that they are really clever little creatures once you befriend a few of them. Shawn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
